The guy is a corrupt, dope-smoking, unstable perv. Yet, his constituents fatuously re-elect him over and over and over and over again. Why? Just because he’s gay? Don’t want to be thought of as “insensitive” or something? I think that says alot about the voters in Massachusetts; As long as you’re queer and a Democrat, it’s okay to be an oleaginous slime ball:

H/T – Martdod for helping me with the title.

Barney Frank knocked on his FannieRep admits to helping lover land job at mortgage giant in ’91

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank admitted he helped his ex-lover land a lucrative post with Fannie Mae in the early 1990s while the Newton Democrat was on a committee that regulated the lending giant — but he called questions of a potential ethical conflict “nonsense.”

“If it is (a conflict of interest), then much of Washington is involved (in conflicts),” Frank told the Herald last night. “It is a common thing in Washington for members of Congress to have spouses work for the federal government. There is no rule against it at all.”

Yes, but: 1) You’re NOT married to Herb Moses; and, 2) You didn’t disclose the fact that you were busy polishing Moses’ rod every other night! Therefore, the Fannie Mae executive who asked Barney Frank about Herb Moses was kept in the dark about a possible conflict of interests.

Frank said he helped his former longtime companion, Herb Moses, land a job at Fannie Mae in 1991 after Moses graduated with a master’s degree in business administration from Dartmouth College. Frank said he was approached by a Fannie Mae executive and vouched for Moses, who formerly worked as an economist in the Department of Agriculture.

“(The executive) said, ‘Herb applied for a job,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, I think he’d be great. He’s an economist and he’s got an MBA,’ ” Frank said, recounting the conversation. “He was hired to an entry-level position.”

Asked if he should have disclosed his efforts to help Moses land the job at Fannie Mae, Frank said: “It was widely known. It was out there in the public. It’s nonsense.”

Congressional Republicans pounced on the embarrassing revelation.

“Just when you think you’ve heard the worst, Democrats in Massachusetts take shameless politics to a new low,” said Tory Mazzola, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “The fact that Barney Frank didn’t see this as a conflict of interest is alarming by itself, but it’s so deceitful that it really shows voters that he’s not looking out for them in Washington.”

Exactly!

Moses, who lived with Frank in Washington at the time, worked for Fannie until 1998, when he left the mortgage behemoth. Moses, who could not be reached for comment, and Frank split up that year.

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Frank’s assistance in helping Moses land the job was first reported in a new book about the fiscal meltdown by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times [NYT] reporter Gretchen Morgensen.

In an interview Tuesday on WBUR’s “Fresh Air,” Morgensen said Frank “was very aggressive and really tough on those who were testifying in Congress about reining in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac” during hearings after Moses was hired. She said Fannie Mae “rolled out the red carpet” for Moses as part of a strategy to curry favor with Frank and other members of the Financial Services Committee.

Morgensen also noted that members of the committee raked in tens of thousands in campaign donations from Fannie and Freddie execs, including Frank, who received $42,000 in contributions from 1989 through 2008.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I will repost it at my new blog on gay issues for politically incorrect/Tea Party/libertarian gays “Big Homo,” http://www.bighomocons.blogspot.con. I joked when those missiles appeared over California a few months ago that Barney would publicly announce that his new boyfriend was NOT an international weapons dealer (since so far he has had a male prostitute who ran an escort service out of one home in DC, this Fannie Mae bureaucrat who like Barney is part of the mortgage crisis (as is NBC’s food stamp journalist Dick Gregory’s wife, a Fannie Mae exec), a perfectly nice guy who hasn’t been in a scandal, and now the “awning” salesman in Rhode Island who was caught growing pot plants in his house — which Barney said he had never noticed.

When the Democrats appoint gay liars, frauds, idiots and pedophile enablers to “represent” gay people, from Jamie Gorelick to Kevin Jennings to Barney Frank, it should be viewed as homophobic.

Isn’t he the fatso that helped people with no jobs, and illegal aliens get home loans which inflated the housing market, which crashed, and then Americans who work were placed on the hook for bailing out the Global market?